The Gate for the Prince

44 Then he brought me ^(A)back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, ^(B)which faces east. And it was shut.

² And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for ^(A)the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut.

⁴ Then he brought me by way of ^(A)the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, ^(B)the glory of the Lord filled the temple of the Lord. And ^(C)I fell on my face.

The Prince and the Feasts

46 “Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)The gate of ^(B)the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and ^(C)on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

^9 (A)“When the people of the land ^(B)come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.

¹⁰ When they enter, ^(A)the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

Boiling Places for Offerings

¹⁹ Then he brought me through the entrance, which was ^(A)at the side of the gate, to the north row of ^(B)the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.

²⁰ And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests ^(A)shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where ^(B)they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so ^(C)transmit holiness to the people.”